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Odraz B92 vesti (by 3 PM), February 21, 1997
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DJINDJIC MAYOR
The opening session of the Belgrade City Assembly begun on Friday
morning. The final constitution of seats was 69 to Zajedno, 23 to
the Socialist Party and JUL, 15 to the Radical Party and 2 to the
Democratic Party of Serbia. Democratic Party leader Zoran Djindjic
was elected mayor of Belgrade.
STUDENTS MEET MINISTER
Representatives of the Student Protest 96/97 on Friday met the
Serbian Minister of Education Jovo Todorovic at his invitation.
One of the student representatives told the media after the
meeting that Minister Todorovic had merely reiterated Belgrade
University Chancellor Dragutin Velickovic's promise to resign if
the students went back to lectures. Cedomir Jovanovic, a member of
the Student Protest's Steering Board, told Radio B92 after the
meeting that the Student Protest would probably modify its protest
now that the first of their demands, the full reinstatement of the
electoral results, had been met.
MONTENEGRO MAY GO IT ALONE
Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic on Thursday announced
that the Montenegrin Government was preparing alternative
programmes for establishing its own blateral relations with the
international community.
Mr. Djukanovic said that the Republic of Serbia had, contrary to
Montenegrin expectations, created new problems over the local
elections rather than eliminating political justifications for the
upholding of the outer wall of sanctions and offering full
cooperation to the international community.
Mr. Djukanovic said that Montenegro must keep up its pressure on
the Yugoslav and Serbian Governments to solve the political
problems urgently, fully and democratically, lest the unfavourable
status of FR Yugoslavia should contunue.
In addition to this, Mr. Djukanovic stated, the Montenegrin
Government was preparing an alternative programme for establishing
its own relations with the international organizations. Mr.
Djukanovic said that Montenegro should capitalise on the
advantages it had achieved by ownership transformation.
VILLAGES SUPPORT MILOSEVIC
The Czech newspaper Mlada Fronta Dnes carried an article on
Friday, saying that the villages in Serbia had no interest in the
goings-on in Belgrade. The article reported that the independent
electronic media could not reach these areas and the only
information they had received about the protests at the November
electoral fraud was through the state media. The article said that
the vast majority of the villagers had cast their votes for
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's party in the recent local
elections and still supported him.
CROATIAN OPPOSITION COALITION
Four Croatian opposition parties have agreed to run as a coalition
for the forthcoming local elections in Zagreb, AFP reports. The
coalition will include the Croat Social-Liberal Party, the Social-
Democratic Party, the Croat People's Party and the Croat
Christian-Democratic Union. The local elections in Croatia are set
for April 13. The opposition won a majority in the Zagreb City
Assembly in the 1995 local elections, but Croatian President
Franjo Tudjman has four times blocked the election of an
opposition Mayor of Zagreb.
SFOR VEHICLE HIT
SFOR, the Stabilization Force in Bosnia Herzegovina, announced on
Friday that one of their armoured vehicles had been hit by an
anti-tank rocket early on Friday morning, AFP reports. The
incident occurred on the former demarcation line in Mostar and no
casualties have been reported. The unnamed spokesman for SFOR
stated that the rocket had come from the West Croat-conrolled)
bank of the Neretva river.
CROATIA PROSECUTES POLICE
Croat authorities in Mostar will prosecute 6 Croat policemen in
connection with the February 10 attack on Muslims in the town. The
attack resulted in one eath and 22 other casualties. According to
witnesses and photographs in possession of the SFO, several Croat
policemen stood by whole a group of men armed with guns and sticks
attacked a Muslim procession.
Prepared by: Marija Milosavljevic
Edited by: Steve Agnew
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